SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3439808 - Automatic Deletion Not Picking The Obsolete Customers

Symptom

User notices that all obsolete customers are not picked up for automatic deletion. It is not taking the entire data.

For Ex: 1000 Customers, It is taking 500 , 400 and 100 users every time with different runs.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer core applications

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Data Protection and Privacy work center
  2. Go to Common Tasks view.
  3. Choose "Administer Obsolete Business Partner Removal Runs"

All obsolete customers are not picked up for automatic deletion.



Cause

There are few possible reasons for a customer/business partner not getting picked up in the obsolete deletion run. 

1. The termination date(Date of Obsolete) of the business partner does not match the value which is mentioned in the code for deletion run.

2. The country value of the business partner is blank.

  • Go to Business Partner Data work center
  • Go to Business Partners view
  • In details Tab 
  • Country data is not available

Resolution

This is system expected behavior.

See Also

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3312403

Keywords

strange behavior, Obsolete Customers, automatic deletion, removal run, private accounts, prospect, Administer Obsolete Business Partner Removal Runs , KBA , AP-RC-ILM , ByD,C4C,Travel: Information Lifecycle Management , Problem

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions